Astute readers probably already saw this one waiting in our backend, but since there was no official announcement yet, I decided to wait. Now that it's officially here, let's rejoice: the FreeBSD team has released version 8.0 of their operating system, packed with new features and improvements.

Great news. Thanks FreeBSD people! One thing I'd like to say is that the "FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE Release Notes" and "FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE Announcement" are both read as technical documents with technical jargon used. That's fine for most of your users I guess but not mainstream users. Look at how Firefox does release notes and announcements, much easier to read but they do provide the technical information for those who want to know. Maybe you don't care about mainstream acceptance, I don't know. Either way, thank you!